3 instruments will help Afghanistan to protect his cultural heritage :

- Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954)
- Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Exportand Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970)
- Intergovernmental Commitee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries or its Restitution in cas of Illicit Appropriation.